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August 29th Test & Tune
Last Saturday I took the car to Speedworld for some Test & Tune. I wanted to be sure that the car would still run okay after having a lot of work done with it over the summer. I was especially concerned about the rear suspension – which was the biggest change. Nobody was able to go with me so I went all by myself – and because of that there are no pictures or videos of that night. But it turned out to be a good night. I proved to myself that the car still runs great, and best of all it seems to be running faster than before. My best run of the night was a 12.6111 @ 106.36 MPH at 5013 DA. If I convert that to standard using the NHRA tables, I get an 11.82 @ 113.39 MPH. The fastest standard ET I have ever gotten before was somewhere in the mid to high 11.9′s. So from this, I know that my car has gotten to be between 0.10 to 0.15 faster with the new rear suspension and tires on there.
One thing I am going to have to do is to fix the front right tire. I kept having to put air in it to keep it up. It is definitely leaking air slowly, at a rate of about 2 PSI per hour.
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